Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] between the " in BNC.

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1 We would be even more a country of two societies than is already the case , with the divide being between the employed haves and the unemployed have-nots .
2 Mr. Frank Farr leased a garden at the end of a lane called Prospect Place , the entrance being between The Saint Ann 's Street Post Office and Hibberds Antique Shop .
3 Regional specialization developed , the major division of labour being between the grain-surplus areas of the south and the grain-deficit areas of the north and centre .
4 One important association is between the mating system and the mode of parental care .
5 But here in the Central South area the real contest is between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats .
6 If one wishes to speak of specifically ‘ political ’ roles , the divide is between the individual ruwatu and their wives ( ruwahutu ) , on the one hand , and everyone else , on the other ( Overing 1985 ) .
7 But the most common confusion is between the dependence thesis and the no difference thesis , which was briefly discussed in the last chapter .
8 Essentially , the Kultur-kampf is between the phallo-centric cylinder mower ( that thrusting motion combined with the crushing rollers ) and the innovative hover — however mimetic of traditional scything — with its more spatially flexible style .
9 Most of the violence was between the ANC and Zulu rivals of the Inkatha Freedom party .
10 We could say that the conflict in any modern marriage is between the needs of self , the needs of the partnership ( each partner wanting to support the other , but refusing to be swamped by or subjugated to the other ) , the needs of children , the needs of the family as a group and the needs of those outside the family .
11 The other pay-off with the diesel engine is between the same high levels of NOx and the fuel efficiency ; if you reduce the NOx level , there is a commensurate improvement in fuel economy .
12 It seems that Humphrey had several favourite places where he viewed the progress of the works , one such place being between the weighbridge and the steel works .
13 Do you know what the difference is between the Hindus and the Buddhists ?
14 The principal contextual difference is between the rural and urban sectors , or , slightly differently as we shall see , between agricultural land — farms — and housing .
15 The distinction is between the Continental concept of the ‘ universal rights of man ’ , innate and natural rights which it is the duty of the state , bound by the Constitution , to safeguard on behalf of the citizen , and the British concept of the ‘ rights and liberties of the freeborn Englishman ’ , hard won and historically based rights which it is the duty of the citizen himself to defend from Government encroachment .
16 The most dramatic shift is between the years 1971 and 1978 .
17 As with so many things the useful point is between the extremes .
18 I asked Ms Higgins what the difference was between the monsoon and the pre-monsoon .
19 It was Vietnam again ; when asked at the hearings what the difference was between the two battlegrounds , he replied ‘ Ten thousand miles ’ .
20 The general output from a character recogniser is a lattice of the possible characters with indications about how close the match was between the character and character templates stored in a database ( see $1.4.2 ) .
21 The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth .
22 This is another in our series from the university , in which I shall be discovering from people in the wider community what they know about us and what the points of contact are between the university and them .
23 ‘ I 've always thought the most important sex organ is between the ears , ’ David said , kissing hers .
24 Example 136 is a simple two-part canon , the ‘ consequent ’ or following voice being a minor 6th below the leading voice : The first canon by inversion is between the outer parts .
25 If they are all full , the blockage is between the last inspection chamber and the main sewer .
26 In this case the conflict is between the urge to flee from the predator and the urge to attack it .
27 Rapid turnover in junior staff does not disturb continuity if the working relationship is between the general practitioner and the consultant rather than the house officer .
28 For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher .
29 If the proprietor was between the ages of 50 and 60 in 1952 , at least 50% of his vineyard must be planted with authorised varieties .
30 To be more precise , the conflict was between the felt need of interventionism by the majority of the population and its politicians and the particular social theology of the churchmen .
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